I just counted 68 blog entries on http://blogs.msdn.com posted within the last 24 hours with a title like "Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is released". I doubt I have anything new to add beyond Soma's post and what the other 68 already said. Brian Harry has...

I was playing around with Live Writer's (WLW) PlugIn API and am really impressed. It's clean, hassle-free, and very easy to write an PlugIn, and WLW appears to export a good set of services for plugins to consume. (Check out the WLW PlugIn gallery for...

It's annoying when an application crashes, but there are worse things. In my opinion, for end-user applications (and not mission critical apps) : - The best thing is for the program to just work as expected . - a crash is better than data-corruption ...

The oxymoron "safety by accident" came up in a conversation. It sounded very natural in context when we first mentioned it, and then we stopped for a second and realized it was kind of silly. The idea was that some code was flawed, but some unrelated...

Going from 8 minutes down to 15 seconds. Not bad. What's the secret? Synchronizing the traffic lights. I'm talking about my evening commute home. There are a set of 4 traffic lights I hit to get out of my Microsoft building and onto the closest highway...

You've probably seen (C# + Silverlight 1.1) clobbering JScript at Chess in the Silverlight Chess demo . The Nintendo DS has a chess program, Clubhouse Games , which isn't very good, as I mentioned earlier here . So then I wondered who would win at chess...

I've had enough "Debugger + Versioning" posts to go back and create a versioning category. The general overview: Managed Debugging Versioning . This provides the ground rules and key concepts for how managed debugging versioning works. Implications of...

Debugging MC++ apps from VC2002 with VS2005 came up in the comments here . In the ideal world, Whidbey works great and everybody is upgraded to Whidbey (VS2005) and so nobody is still interested in VC2002. In our broken and fallen world, these ideals...

I noticed something that was very stupid (for purposes of this post, it doesn't matter what exactly that thing was). A coworker asked me "Do you think it was done by accident?" I figure either way, it's bad. If yes, this stupid thing was done by accident...